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Six Mélodies

Song Cycle by Marcel Bertrand (1884 - 1945)

1. La veillée

Language: French (Français) 
La nuit appelle les lumières
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Text Authorship:

  • by Hugues Lapaire (1869 - 1967), "La veillée"

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In Anthologie des poètes français contemporains, volume 3 : le Parnasse et les écoles postérieures au Parnasse (1866-1906), Paris, C. Delegrave, 1906.


2. Dernier sommeil

Language: French (Français) 
Ne cherchez plus par les chemins/ Les asphodèles et le jasmin
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  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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3. Une jeune fille d’autrefois

Language: French (Français) 
Dans la pénombre presque blanche du salon
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Text Authorship:

  • by Adolphe Boschot (1871 - 1955)

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4. Orphée au tombeau d’Eurydice

Language: French (Français) 
N’entends-tu pas mon chant et ma plainte étouffée ?
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Text Authorship:

  • by Gabriel Nigond (1877 - 1937)

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5. Recueillement  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Sois sage, ô ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille.
Tu réclamais le Soir ; il descend ; le voici :
Une atmosphère obscure enveloppe la ville,
Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.

[Pendant]1 que des mortels la multitude vile,
Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci,
Va cueillir des remords dans la fête servile,
Ma Douleur, donne-moi la main ; viens par ici,

Loin d'eux. Vois se pencher les défuntes Années,
Sur les balcons du ciel, en robes surannées ;
[Surgir du fond des eaux le Regret souriant]2 ;

Le Soleil moribond s'endormir sous une arche,
Et, comme un long linceul traînant à l'Orient,
Entends, ma chère, entends la douce Nuit qui marche.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Recueillement", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 104, Paris(?), Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Duma"
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Meditative calm", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Meditation", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Victor Torres) , "Recogimiento", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Le Parnasse contemporain : receuil de vers nouveaux, premier receuil, [Paris?]: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, page 79. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in Spleen et Idéal, page 237.

First published by Alphonse Lemerre in Le Parnasse contemporain : receuil de vers nouveaux, premier receuil, 1866; also appears under Spleen et Idéal as number 102 in the 1868 edition of Les Fleurs du mal.

1 Vierne: "Tandis"
2 Vierne: "Surgir des fonds de l'eau le Regret souriant"

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6. L'Angélus du soir

Language: French (Français) 
L'angélus a sonné dans le soir reposé
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Text Authorship:

  • by Adolphe Boschot (1871 - 1955)

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Total word count: 114
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